By Mary Julie | Program Manager
Anu and Thiru are two orphan children who are looked after by their maternal grand parents. Though their grandparents are very aged, they work hard to support the family. It has been a 9 year journey for Buds of Christ with Anu and Thiru. On our first meeting with the children at their home; they were silent and did not even welcome us, as it was new for them to see people outside their family coming to their home. Their mother had just passed away due to a chronic ill health, when we visited them and the house was all filled with sadness. Earlier a year before, the children lost their father and it had been very hard time for them to take one loss after another.
The visit was to know the family, understand the support we can render to the children to live a quality and productive live. After multiple visits, the children started conversing with us through drawing. In their picture they had represented the loss of their mother and slowly we started inviting them to the centre for support groups and the children started meeting similar children (Who have lost their parents and were also affected by chronic ill health condition) and found a supportive group among them. They started meeting their friends once in 15 days, they used to have song sessions, dance, story telling and treatment education session. Later as Anu grew to her adolescence, she was guided to set her goals. She had interest in styling and creative in her drawings and paintings. During the first lock down, she also enrolled into the tailoring class and was able to sew chudidhars and even saree blouse for her grandmother and neighbors. On seeing this passion, Buds of Christ had guided her to apply for the graduation course in Fashion designing. Its a great achievement for the family, especially her grand mother to see her grandchild enter college in this academic. We also join in the joy of the grand parents in helping her realize her dream.
Its such Anus and Tirus, we have been working for the last 11 years at Namakkal and Salem. We thank all our supporters through GlobalGiving in making this Education a dream come true.
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